Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Vegetables with Wheat Dalia/Couscous

After checking out the couscous recipe that was featured in the blog The Mad Chemist , I was inspired to make the Vegetable Dalia - quite like the Upma with Bombay Rawa, but definitely more healthy when you consider that it is broken whole wheat and therefore has more fibre and is not all starch like the refined rawa.

Ingredients -

Wheat Dalia - 1 cup

Onion - 1 medium - slice

Peas - 30 gms

Carrot - 1 slice

Beans - few - slice lengthwise

Red chillies - 2

Green chillies- 2 slit lengthwise

Peanuts - 25 gms

Oil - 3 tbsp

Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp

Bengal gram dal - 1 tbsp

Urad dal - 1/2 tsp

Curry leaves - few

Coriander for garnishing

Roast the dalia with a little oil for sometime

Keep aside.

Also roast peanuts and keep aside

Take a wok.

Heat oil.

Add the seasoning to the oil- mustard, dals.

When the mustard splutters, add red chili, curry leaves and saute

Add onions, green chillies

Add rest of the vegetables. Saute.

Then add 2 1/2 cups - 3 cups of water and allow it to boil and veggies to cook.

Add salt to taste.

Slowly add the dalia and stir gently till the water is absorbed.

Add the roasted peanuts

Garnish and serve hot with chutney, pickle.

( You can experiment with the vegetables- add your favourite veggies, replace the peanut with cashewnuts, omit the dals in the seasoning and add whole garam masala to convert it from upma to a pulao- the options are endless)

PS: Try this variation - wash the dalia and put it in the cooker and steam it. Use the steamed dalia for making the upma - this seems to be a tastier and healthier way to make the dish.

4 comments:

These days Couscous is the flavor of the season at home. I am in love with it. I have tried a quicker way as well. Bring water to boil (250ml if you are using 250gm couscous). Add a pinch of salt and 1tsp oil. Once it boils, take it off the flame. Add the couscous to this water and allow for it to absorb the water. After 3-4 mins add a very small measure of butter if you have and using a fork loosen up the couscous. This is now ready to be added to the vegetables which have been lightly stir fried by then. The whole dish has taken not more than 7 to 8 mins on the whole and it comes out so tasty..I will try your version this weekend Aunty.

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